Thursday, October 11, 2007

Dealing with Deportation


A. Vest

Imagine not even being safe in your own home or at work or even while at a grocery store getting your own food well for many people that is the case. For many people this one word now stands for "family destroyer" that word is "Racism." It is what drives a movement toward deportation. Deportation is a main issue for many immigrants right now. If you are the type of person that likes watching the news every evening then you probably here at lest one story that has to do with deportation. Some people may say well they are going back to their home so deportation is a good thing but actually the real meaning of deportation is the expulsion of someone from a country.

It is not only legal immigrants that are being deported there has been cases where legal citizens have been deported out of their own country. Many laws have been input so that illegal immigrants would be deported after committing even a minor crime. For example in 1996, a law was introduced that allowed those who were not citizens in the U.S. and that received a jail sentence for a year or longer to be deported. It does not matter if the sentence was later suspended. The sentence could be from a simple robbery that did not involve weapons to murder it would make no difference. At first this seems fair, but it could just be a random kid who was being dumb.

Another reason why deporting all foreign people is now so strong has to do with a National Security issue. After 9/11 the government have reinforced national security. So that is why if after the 1996 laws people thaught it was getting hard after 9/11 it was almost impossible to not be deported after making a crime. Yet, there is still no proof connecting immigrants from places like Mexico with the September 11th attacks.

There may be many people that are against these laws but there are always people that support these laws. Minutemen are groups formed to deter illegal crossing of all the borders of the United States, with most undocumented people coming from Mexico. People like minutemen will have strikes against churches and other places that give refuge to illegal immigrants with a deportation order.

Groups like Minutemen and many others are not realizing the effects that many families go through after one of their family members sometimes their mom sometimes their dad sometimes they deport both and their children are left alone. These people should realize and understand the effects of these people.

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